Static ship H.M.S. Bounty

British 18th-century frigate The name of the Bounty, a frigate of the British Navy, is indissolubly linked to that of its commander, Captain Bligh, and to the vicissitudes that led its crew to mutiny. The Bounty weighed anchor from Spithead in December 1787 bound for Tahiti. On the way back, due to the strict discipline imposed by its commander, in clear contradiction with the leisure of the stay in Tahiti, some discontent began to spread among the crew and soon the revolt broke out. Boatswain Christian Fletcher took command of the boat and forced Bligh to embark on a longboat with 18 crew members who remained loyal to him. After a perilous voyage of over 4000 miles, Bligh managed to reach the island of Timor and then England. The Bounty returned to Tahiti where part of the crew disembarked. The boat then sailed to Pitcairn Island where Fletcher and the others settled. It was only 20 years later that the group disembarked in Tahiti was captured and brought to trial before the English court martial, which convicted only 3 of the sailors, acquitting the others.